

(ARCH’s residency program is funded, in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.) As part of their two month stay, the three selected artists for this program Mark Doxey, Jane Butler and Paddy Kelley have integrated themselves into the Anacostia community, culminating in a group exhibition at Blank Space SE. Photographers: Mark Doxey, Paddy Kelly and Jane ButlerĪRCH Artists in Residency Program is hosting three Northern Irish photographers as part of an on-going cultural exchange between with Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast Exposed. Both site and subject of the first photographic negative, the Abbey is hallowed ground in the history of photography and became a point of pilgrimage for McCarty. Lisa McCarty exhibits photographs taken at Lacock Abbey, the home of William Henry Fox Talbot. Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, November 5th, from 2-5pmĮxhibit Dates: Open Now! October 15 – December 16 Lisa McCarty: Some Account of Lacock Abbey When prompted on the impetus for his travels to Afghanistan Palu answered, “When I started covering the war in 2006 it had become a forgotten conflict, many people today still don’t know where Kandahar is, let alone that it is in Afghanistan.” Excerpts of video and Louie’s diaries made on the front lines will also be featured in the gallery. She is an associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.Opening Reception & Artist Talk: open pre-FotoweekDC, November 2nd, 6-8pmĪn in-depth retrospective of the conflict in Southern Afghanistan photographed over five years. She recently curated Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980-named one of the best exhibitions of 20 by Artforum and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)-at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her project Taming the Freeway and Other Acts of Urban HIP-notism: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s is forthcoming from MIT Press.


Her book EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2011) was named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly. Kellie Jones’s work has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and the journals Nka, Artforum, Flash Art, Atlantica, and Third Text, among others.

It will focus on works by Mexican artists Felipe Ehrenberg, Lourdes Grobet, and Sebastián, collectives Março and Proceso Pentágono, as well as African American artists David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, and Adrian Piper. Presenting a cross-cultural discussion of artists’ attempts to use avant-garde schemas to reach mass audiences, Art is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies 1968–1983 will explore how alternative models for foregrounding social/political concerns affected the artistic process and the material conditions of objects.
